Politics
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Roy Jeans: why Facebook’s new digital currency Libra will be strangled at birth
A YouGov survey recently revealed that six out of ten voters would not buy a used car from Boris Johnson.…
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Is P&G’s new purpose ad ‘The Look’ really a cop out?
Here’s another much-trumpeted dollop of purpose from P&G, ‘The Look’ from the Saturday Morning collective. Showing a black man and…
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Samir Patel: does purpose-driven advertising do good causes more harm than good?
This year at Cannes we saw the expected deluge of purpose-focused winners, from the massive Dream Crazy ad from Nike…
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Is digital currency Libra set to become Facebook’s Midland Bank moment?
Readers with (very) long memories may recall that in 1987 the Saatchi brothers, then running the world’s biggest agency group,…
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Jane Austin: why do people in advertising – especially CMOs – have to speak in riddles?
Trust was the most popular word at Cannes this year, the actual meaning of which covers a multitude of strategies…
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Woke-washing, re-inventing creativity and all the other things that may (or may not) be good for business
What on earth is ‘woke-washing?’ It was instanced by new Unilever CEO Alan Jope at a roundtable in Cannes and…
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Roy Jeans: how the ad industry actively underpins “surveillance capitalism”
In the regional Chinese city of Rongcheng, the ruling one-party state is perfecting its soon to be nationwide “Social Credit…
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Reckitt Benckiser joins anti-plastic rush
RB, Reckitt Benckiser as was and sometimes still is, is stepping outside its usual hard sell mode with this anti-plastic…
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Dark Horses promotes forgotten footballers for CONIFA European championship
More football, this time from some unexpected places. Sportsbet.io (which lets you bet in bitcoins and other crypto currencies –…
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